Masimo and Qualcomm to Develop Smartwatch Reference Platform For OEM By CIOTechOutlook Team

Masimo and Qualcomm to Develop Smartwatch Reference Platform For OEM

CIOTechOutlook Team | Monday, 16 September 2024, 03:06 IST

Masimo has revealed a partnership with Qualcomm Technologies to create an advanced smartwatch reference platform for OEMs who are creating Wear OS by Google smartwatches. Masimo's successful biosensing technologies, built on years of experience in hospital monitoring solutions, combined with top-notch Snapdragon wearable platforms, will assist in expanding the wearable ecosystem.

Creating the future of wearable technology, the reference platform enables OEMs to efficiently develop and launch high-performing, top-of-the-line smartwatches. The platform will also see advantages from a strong collection of Masimo health and wellness tracking tools that consumers can rely on for precise and dependable data.

Joe Kiani, Founder and CEO of Masimo, said, "We’re thrilled to be able to partner with Qualcomm Technologies, to whom we naturally turned to supply the chips in our own forthcoming Masimo Freedom™ wearable, to craft a truly remarkable reference platform. It’s a platform driven by the belief that when key smartwatch components are supplied by the leading experts in their field, the harmonious whole produces something even greater than the sum of those excellent parts. In short, Qualcomm Technologies and Masimo engineers are working together to optimize the ‘guts’ of the smartwatch. Masimo’s ability to craft precision monitoring technologies and advanced signal processing algorithms, combined with meticulously engineered, high-performing, low-power Snapdragon systems, is a compelling foundation. We expect this new wearable platform to supercharge smartwatch OEMs’ abilities to create competitive, desirable smartwatches for consumers everywhere. I look forward to partnering with a company as well known for its commitment to innovation as Masimo."